St Bridget complained to St Patrick that women could not propose marriage, so he permitted them to have this privilege on one day in one year out of four. When St Bridget proposed to him, however, he turned her down and gave her a silk gown as a consolation present. Until the 19th century in Britain, a man was obliged to give a silk gown to any lady whose marriage proposal he refused in Leap Year.
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The occurrence of five Sundays in February comes only three times in a hundred years.
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